Ian Jackson
WDTK
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20 July 2009
FOI ref no 1052 (2009)
Dear Mr Jackson
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 3 June 2009. You asked for:-
figures of the number of dismissals each year from the New Deal programme, with data specific to areas and type (VSO, NDYP, ND25+) etc.up until April 2009 since records began.
the total number of people participating per year since records started on the New Deal scheme
Information to answer part 1 of your question is not available. Information to answer part 2 of your request is unavailable in the format requested however New Deal statistics are available on the Department's website and should provide you with some information. The link is below:
Choose - Employment Programme Data
Click on - New Deal for Young People (for instance)
Benefit scheme - New Deal for Young People starters (for instance)
Analysis - starters
Row - Gender
Column - Time series
Subset - none
Date - February 2009 (latest data available)
Get table
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
Central FoI Team
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